26 Oct 2021 | Running after fifty |
**Guest post** Chris Bexton from Nottinghamshire began running at 53 and quickly found she could improve her times. Now in her sixties, Chris continues to be a competitive age group runner despite experiencing a major health setback just three years after starting...
21 Mar 2021 | Running after fifty |
** Guest post ** – Joyce Bell from Kent writes about how she finally became a runner in her early sixties. Within a few years of her first parkrun, she ran a marathon and surprised herself by qualifying to represent England as a Masters athlete. I met Joyce at...
11 Apr 2020 | Running after fifty |
Vanessa Walker chose to celebrate her 60th birthday in 2019 by competing in the Dukeries 30 ultra race with her two sons and six friends from her running club. Despite a very early start and 30 miles of running, she had enough energy left to attend her own birthday...
7 Mar 2019 | Popular articles, Running after fifty |
In January I added three women to my list of running bloggers over 50. I noticed that all three of them are ultrarunners. Alene Nitzky, from Colorado USA, has been running ultras since 1991 and has run the Badwater 135 race twice. Carolin Botterill, from Alberta...
9 Jul 2018 | Interviews with women runners over 50 |
It’s unusual to meet a runner who’s been running for over 40 years, and it’s particularly unusual for that runner to be a woman. The RunBritain rankings website lists 31,600 active runners aged 60 and over, but only 28% of them are women. There has been a significant...
